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• n  a dirty shabbily clothed urchin
• s  worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing
  a tatterdemalion prince
• s  in deplorable condition

• In a dim-lit bay of the Htel des Invalides, along with flintlocks and drooping battle flags, stands the most famed, most tatterdemalion taxi in all France.
• Recently there stood in the dock of the Old Bailey, famed London law court, one more tatterdemalion derelict of the thousands that file in and out of that hall of Justice every .
• As Embry advanced in tatterdemalion disguise, the British retreated.

• ragamuffin
• tattered
• bedraggled
• broken-down
• derelict
• dilapidated
• ramshackle
• tumble-down